The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-03-03
MIsCELLANEOUa

Gently ana Tor a distance OF SIX miles car
ried every thing before II, t,destroying fences
and cabins. The breadth was about forty
feet. 1t is the first ever reported west OF
| the Rocky mountains.
TERRIBLE and disastrous earthquake
shocks occurred in the southeastern part
of France and the northwestern part OF
Itaiy on the morning Of the 23d. At Crevo,
near Diano Marino, 800 lives were lost. AT
Noli near Genoa, fifteen lives were lost,
and at Oneglia six were killed. Scores
were also reported killed at Dlano Marino.
| The number of injured run into the thou
sands. The shocks were felt at Nice, Tou-
lon, Marseilles, Genoa, Cannes, Turin,
! Milan and as far as Geneva. The damage
TO property was incalculable.
THE Iowa Supreme Court has granted an
| injunction against the International Distil-
| lery, restraining it from manufacturing al
coholic liquors except for mechanical, me
dicinal and sacramental purposes. 1t is the
only distillery IN the State.
THE Pennsylvania Board of Pardons has
| granted q rehearing in the case of Milton
| Weston. the Chicago capitalist now under
going Imprisonment in the Riverside peni-
tentiary for completely in the Murraysville
! gas well riots.
HENRY E. DoDsoN, convicted in Augusta.
KY, of vagrancy has been ordered sold fol
seventy-fve Gays to the highest bidder.
The British steamship Weatherall nas
been sunk in collision with bark and one
of the crew has been lost.
BOMB was thrown into Worth street,
| Boston, recently, and exploded with great
noise but no damage
THE prisoners at Bolton, Tex, locked the
! jailer in a cell and all escaped. They car.
ried the KEYS with them.
| DISPATCHES from Rome Of the oath stated
| that the victims of the recent earthquake
! numbered thousands In the GenOese
Riviera two thousand were reported killed,
three hundred being killed in a church,
whittier they went after the first shock.
The second shock appeared to be the most
| fatal.
! THE r1ver bank at Leota, Miss, com.
menced cavlng in recently, carrying away
| two or three buildings. ApprehensIons
were felt that the whole town would go.
IT is reported that three officers impH
Gated in the recently discovered military
pot have been hanged at st. Petersburg.
The Russian Government has strictly en-
| Joined official secrecy respecting the con.
| spiracy.
! THE New York Supreme Court has de-
cided in favor Of the Stock Exchange in re-
gard to interfering with ticker privileges
ANOTHER trunk containing mutilated
human remains, has been found at the Bal
timore & Ohio depot, at Pittsburgh, Pa
THREE men and two women, holiness
! evangelists," recently preaching in Column
bla, 3. c., provoked the enmity of the
| Catholic population. A mob ordered them
to quit the place, and on their refusing
halters were placed around their neeks and
they were dragged out and kicked until
they were nearly killed.
| THE Industrial Gdze,te, of st. Louis, makes
the announcement that there has just been
uncovered. near Tuscaloosa, Ala, a bed OF
red hematlte iron ore sixteen feet thick,
which analyses o21S per cent. of metallic
| iron, and is believed to be the most exten-
sive and valuable deposit of the kind in the
! United States.
THE will Of George Hutchins, of Ancora,
N j., bequeathing $4,000 to Henry George
| for the dissemination OF literature on social
liberty, has been admitted to probate.
! TIE New York Railroad Commissioners
have recommended the passage of bill to
insure safety In lighting and heating cars.
! WILLIAM BUSCH, the murderer who
escaped from the Ridgeway (Pa) jail has
! been captured.
| AN alternative scheme for gradually
abolishing the Importation Of iron into Rus
sIa has been submitted. The Imperial
| Council proposes either to gradually pro-
/ hibit imports of iron or gradually increase
! the duties until they become prohibitory.
| MR. and Mrs. Barbour Drum. aged about
fifty, were burned to death in their dwell
ing In the town of Big Flats, N. Y, the
other morning They were alone in the
house and no one knows how the FIRE
started